{"id":3602,"date":"2011-08-16T03:42:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T07:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2011-08-16T03:42:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T07:42:02","slug":"hastings-country-park-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/hastings-country-park-nature-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking east from chez nous la grumpy vegan and depending upon how quickly the climb up the East Hill takes and in about 15 minutes you&#8217;re in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hastings.gov.uk\/hcp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve<\/a>. Recently, on a glorious Saturday afternoon, the Grumpy Vegan took a long circular walk in the park, which was, er, a glorious experience. This nearby countryside is spectacularly beautiful. Cliff tops. Open greens. Bracken. Plunging walks. Wooded sheltered idylls. In short, it&#8217;s a great place to go to escape. Here&#8217;s the first of two posts with photographs attempting to capture its, er, glory.\u00a0(Click on each &#8212; once and then again &#8212; to get a bigger view.)<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3602 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/hastings-country-park-nature-reserve\/img_3120\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_3120-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3586\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3586'>\n\t\t\t\tHastings Country Park Nature Reserve&#8211;looking east toward Fairlight.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/hastings-country-park-nature-reserve\/img_3108\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_3108-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3585\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3585'>\n\t\t\t\tHastings Country Park Nature Reserve&#8211;the track across the cliff tops looking toward Hastings Old Town.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/hastings-country-park-nature-reserve\/img_3116\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_3116-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3584\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3584'>\n\t\t\t\tHastings Country Park Nature Reserve&#8211;the winding path through an undulating woody glen. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking east from chez nous la grumpy vegan and depending upon how quickly the climb up the East Hill takes and in about 15 minutes you&#8217;re in the\u00a0Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve. Recently, on a glorious Saturday afternoon, the Grumpy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/hastings-country-park-nature-reserve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,36],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-grumpy-vegan-life","tag-glimpses","tag-why-britain-is-great"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}